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Topic: Report: Universal theme park
will quit offering healthcare
to part-time workers |
Report: Universal theme park
will quit offering healthcare
to part-time workers
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/20/2013 1:39:46 PM
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| A 17,000-employee Florida theme park says it´s dropping healthcare benefits for part-time workers as a result of President Obama´s healthcare law. Universal Orlando will quit offering coverage because its bare-bones plan is about to become illegal, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel. Only about 500 of the park´s thousands of part-time workers are enrolled in the healthcare plan, the Sentinel reported. Universal offers what´s known as a "mini-med" plan. The policies offer low premiums, but also come with tight caps on the benefits they´ll pay out. Universal´s, for example, will only cover $5,000 per year in hospital stays.
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Comments:
We will see hundreds of stories just like this over the next year. And the low information voters will all blame the Republicans for this disaster, or will they.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
sg, 2/20/2013 1:48:03 PM (No. 9187014)
"if you like your health plan, you can keep it."
"the goods are on the truck.´
"the check is in the mail.´
"of course, I´ll respect you in the morning.´
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 2/20/2013 2:27:15 PM (No. 9187124)
"But it´s free - that´s why we voted for Obama."
/s
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 2/20/2013 2:34:18 PM (No. 9187138)
Didn´t Fla vote Obama back in ? This is the result, folks. Not what you expected. Then next time, think before you vote.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hybernicus, 2/20/2013 2:43:54 PM (No. 9187164)
Universal Studios = Hollywood
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kctiger, 2/20/2013 3:45:10 PM (No. 9187288)
Well it´s stange...
But it was said that around 30-40 million people did not have any health care coverage before Obamacare, now that it´s going into effect, it appears that over 100 million may be without healthcare! Hmmmmmm?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 2/20/2013 3:53:16 PM (No. 9187314)
All part of the plan, my friends. The goal has been single payer healthcare all along.
If I were a med student, I would drop out this afternoon.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jiobaobubai, 2/20/2013 4:30:08 PM (No. 9187414)
Correct #4, schadenfreude.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
KimoSaavy, 2/20/2013 4:40:00 PM (No. 9187452)
Fl has always been a red state. It is currently being inundated with people from NY, CT, NJ, you name it. It is now a borderline blue state. People are uneducated and accordingly vote democrat.
Funny how they run away from high taxes and progressive liberal socialist schtick but keep voting in the same way in their new home.
They support nothing local and everything that is from their former home state (Yankees, Jets, and other crappola).
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Watlines, 2/20/2013 4:57:06 PM (No. 9187490)
This rolling ball is picking up speed. Wait until the howling starts.
This is one debacle that Obama can´t hide from, blame republicans, or former President Bush. Not even an ongoing invasion of invisible space aliens.
It´s his legacy and it won´t be pretty.
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